> > On Tuesday 08 May 2007 02:43:45 pm Aaron Hoover wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I was excited to see that a Qt4 backend is available for matplotlib - >> I'm running 0.87.7. So, I installed PyQt4 from source from the >> riverbankcomputing website (OSX comes with the Qt framework already >> installed), and tried to give it a go. >> >> First off I got the error: >> >> "No module named qt" >> >> So, I went into the Shell.py script in the IPython subdirectory of >> site-packages and changed all instances of "import qt" to "from PyQt4 >> import Qt as qt". > > There is already support for the qt4 backend in ipython, you should > not have > to make any changes to (recent versions of) ipython. > >> It fixed the module not found error, but now >> I get the following error in Shell.py >> >> "TypeError: too many arguments to QTimer.start(), 1 at most expected" >> >> I realize that this is more likely an error with ipython, but I'm >> wondering if anyone else has seen this. If so, have people verified >> that ipython (0.80) is indeed compatible with the Qt4Agg backend. > > I have been using the qt4 backend with ipython for maybe a year > now, currently > ipython 0.8.0. What is the output of "ipython -Version"?
ipython -Version gives: 0.8.0 Specifically, the error seems to be happening on line 838 of Shell.py in the mainloop() function: ... --> 838 self.timer.start( self.TIMEOUT, True ) ... TypeError: too many arguments to QTimer.start(), 1 at most expected Thanks, Aaron ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
